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Sunan Ibn Majah 3444

Do not force the sick person to eat

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حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍ حَدَّثَنَا بَكْرُ بْنُ يُونُسَ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍ عَنْ مُوسَى بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ الْجُهَنِيِّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ

لاَ تُكْرِهُوا مَرْضَاكُمْ عَلَى الطَّعَامِ وَالشَّرَابِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُطْعِمُهُمْ وَيَسْقِيهِمْ

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Numayr
  2. Bakr b. Yūnus b. Bukayr
  3. Mūsá b. ʿAlī b. Rabāḥ
  4. his father
  5. ʿUqbah b. ʿĀmir al-Juhanī
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

“Do not force your sick ones to eat or drink. Allah will feed them and give them to drink.”

Grades by grader

Zubair Ali ZaiWeakfawazahmed0, hadithunlocked, sunnah.com
Muhammad Fuad Abd al-BaqiHasanfawazahmed0
Shuayb al-ArnautHasan Lighairihifawazahmed0
al-AlbaniHasanfawazahmed0
أحمد بن أبي بكر بن إسماعيل البوصيريGood Chainin سنن ابن ماجه, p. 3551hadithunlocked

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Misykatul Mashabih 4533وَعَنْ عُقْبَةَ بْنِ عَامِرٍ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَا تُكْرِهُوا مَرْضَاكُمْ عَلَى الطَّعَامِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ يُطْعِمُهُمْ وَيَسْقِيهِمْ». رَوَاهُ التِّرْمِذِيُّ وَابْنُ مَاجَهْ وَقَالَ التِّرْمِذ

Other narrations of this report

Narrators

  1. a well-known Companiond. 58 AH, or: close to 60 AH
    عُقْبَةُ بْنُ عَامِرٍ بْنِ عَبْسٍ الْفَرَضِيُّصحابي مشهور
    عن
  2. trustworthy (thiqah)d. 117 AH, also said: 114 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة
    عن
  3. truthful (ṣadūq), who sometimes erredd. 163 AH
    مُوسَى بْنِ عُلَيِّ بْنِ رَبَاحٍصدوق ربما أخطأ
    عن
  4. weak (ḍaʿīf)d. between 191 and 200 AH
    بَكْرُ بْنُ يُونُسَ بْنِ بُكَيْرٍضعيف
    حدثنا
  5. trustworthy (thiqah), a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), virtuous (fāḍil)d. 234 AH
    مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللهِ بْنِ نُمَيْرٍثقة حافظ فاضل
    حدثنا
  6. one of the imams, a memorizer (ḥāfiẓ)d. 273 AH, or: 275 AH
    ابْنُ مَاجَهْأحد الأئمة ، حافظ

Who each narrator was and how reliable, from hdith.com

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
Hāshiyat al-Sindī on Abū Daʿūd

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